We barely even want to get into the awfulness that is the racist backlash against the casting of adorable Amandla Stenberg as Hunger Games tribute Rue. Apparently forgetting that Twitter is visible to everyone on the planet, even those of us that are not utter jerks, some fans took umbrage with the fact that Rue [...]
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Rihanna Puts Racist Magazine On Twitter Blast
Rihanna knows Twitter is mightier than the sword. Plus, if she’d used some sort of katana blade to take on Dutch magazine Jackie, we would have missed out on everything but the police report! After the mag published an article describing the “You Da One” singer as a “n—-b—h” (which, we cannot even), RiRi snapped [...]
Michael Bay Bets You Can’t Find Racist Robots In Transfomers 3
364 days of the year, any bet involving racial-offensive robotic cars would have us throwing down money immediately. Unfortunately, the money in this case would be the $12.50 we’d need to take Michael Bay’s Transformers 3 bet that the characters Skids and Mudflap do not appear in the film. After the release of Transformers 2, [...]
Keanu Reeves In Talks For Akira Lead
Turn that frown upside down, Sad Keanu! 2011 is looking like your year. So soon after announcing Bill And Ted 3 might actually happen, New York Mag is reporting that Keanu Reeves is in talks for Akira lead Kaneda after Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling allegedly passed on the film. Seeing as how Akira‘s whitewashing [...]
Things That Make You Go Whoa!: Joey Lawrence Hypes Trump For President
It’s always good for a politician to get some big name celebrities behind them. Some have even suggested it was Oprah‘s support that got President Obama elected in 2008. Meanwhile, Blossom‘s Joey Lawrence supports Donald Trump‘s presidential bid, which we can all agree is almost the same thing. “Obama was something fresh, and new, and [...]
John Legend Calls Out “Racist” Donald Trump
We always imagined it would take a house fire to make even-keeled musician John Legend do so much as coolly saunter to the door, but it looks like questions about Barack Obama‘s nation of origin have him in a rage. In fact, John Legend called Donald Trump racist at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Annual [...]
John Galliano Faces Jail Time For Anti-Semitic Slurs, Issues Denial
The prospect of John Galliano in prison isn’t a pretty one; he’d be ruling with an paisley fist before you’d know it. High-waisted orange palazzo pants as far as the eye can see! Since French law considers anti-Semitism a crime, John Galliano faces jail time for his anti-Semitic slurs. If convicted, Galliano could be looking [...]
Designer John Galliano’s Anti-Semitic Slurs Caught On Tape
Dior designer John Galliano was arrested last Thursday for allegedly incitement of racial prejudice and assaulting a couple in Paris. Galliano reportedly grabbed the hair of a woman at a bar and said that she had “a dirty Jew face” during an an argument, and later insulted her date. Galliano was taken into police custody [...]
